Example sentences of "only [vb pp] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scattered around the London suburbs , or in provincial towns like Sheffield , Brighton and Bradford , these pioneers had only limited access to capital resources , and their companies never grew to any real size . |
| 2 | Pryce ( 1979 ) points out that , as a male , he ‘ had only limited access to the women for research purposes ’ . |
| 3 | The loss of the two ports was serious , as the English now had only limited access to Normandy and to the capital , Rouen , which had come to replace Paris . |
| 4 | Since the analyst has only limited access to what a speaker intended , or how sincerely he was behaving , in the production of a discourse fragment , any claims regarding the implicatures identified will have the status of interpretations . |
| 5 | In 1982 BBC1 's ‘ Nationwide ’ covered Gay News ' tenth birthday , but in general the sharp end of factual programming has only given space to gay issues when they impinge on heterosexual concerns . |
| 6 | To be sure , he still upheld the standards of his father ; he played a full role in the family business on the manufacturing side , but the crown went to his younger brother , Horace , who had not only secured field-promotion to Captain , but went on to bring the family business — and his industry — to new heights , for which he was awarded the OBE several years later . |
| 7 | As Duchess of Aquitaine she had inherited the ducal claim to Toulouse , but at Limoges Raymond had not only done homage to the Dukes of Aquitaine , he had also done homage to the Young King . |
| 8 | Some of the claims have been on the basis of debatable information , and all have been highly selective and have only drawn attention to the adverse elements of research whilst ignoring much encouraging , positive information . |
| 9 | Clearly both meant well , but their concern only called attention to the gulf between their world , their experience , and her own . |
| 10 | Bayezid II was won over by Mueyyedzade 's arguments and not only appointed Kemalpasazade to the Taslik medrese but also charged him with writing a history of the Ottoman dynasty in Turkish to serve as a companion piece to that being written in Persian by Idris Bitlisi |
| 11 | But the figures , which have only emerged thanks to a report from the voluntary sector , show the government has failed to guarantee youth training places . |
| 12 | Eugenists not only opposed charity to the poor , but also favoured child allowances to the better-off to encourage the breeding of superior specimens . |
| 13 | It was a cheap alternative to buying from local merchants , but I was only allowed access to the provisions at points of safety such as towns and wells . |
| 14 | The House of Lords found that the legislation only allowed terms to be attached which related to the use of the site and not to the types of contract the site owner could make with the caravan owners . |
| 15 | Waldheim , a former UN Secretary-General , had been banned from entering the United States , and during his term as President had only paid visits to various Islamic countries ( including Iraq and Iran — see pp. 37759 ; 38309 ) and to the Vatican . |